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Copy Link button creates edit link, not a view link. It used to be different.
Couple weeks or months ago, when you click on Copy Link, while browsing in your folders, it created view link (/sh/), now it creates access link (/scl/) which creates issues and confusion with our ex...
Bump.
I've had clients say they've had problems with my links for months - it's only now that I'm figuring out that it's because Dropbox quietly switched up what link is copied by default.
It's ridiculous to do this on the sly, but it also doesn't make any sense.
How many people go "oh I need to quickly make a link for anyone who has the link to join as an editor?"
I can't imagine it's many. I would imagine most people share with specific email addresses when they want people to actually join.
Surely the overwhelming use of this button was to quickly make links for people to view and download files. I would urge them to change it back.
Yet again, Dropbox messing with what worked for no reason.
Need to bump this, the interface for link sharing is bad. I create a viewable link and delete the edit link. When I then press on the copy link button, it creates a new editable link and copies that. Why?!
I'm having exactly this problem and it's infuriating, I can't even find the "viewing" link after creating one, every option seems to recreate an "editing" link.
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Sorry to hear that you're having trouble creating a "can view" link, RichardJTAG.
Do these steps help?
Yes, thank you! I did get there in the end, it's just that when you're working in the folder itself the options for creating a link all seem to default to an editing link, and although you can switch it to a viewing link in a pop up window the window doesn't actually let you see or copy the viewing link you've just created which is weird.
